Improvement in washing-machines



c. K. ROGERS'.

WASHING-MACHINE.

No.185,499. Patented Jan. 23, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

CHARLES K. ROGERS, OF OSWEGO FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN WASHING-MACHINES. i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,499, dated January 23, 1877; application filed December 11, 1876. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEAELEs K. Roe-Ens, vof Oswego Falls, in the county of Oswego and 'State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine, of which the following isa specification t In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a top view, and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section, of my improved washing-machine.

Similar letters of. reference'indicate corresponding parts.

The invention will first be described in connection with the ....drawing, and then pointed ont in the claims.

In the drawing, A represents the tub of iny improved machine, made of oblong shape, and tapering from the larger top to the smaller bottom part. In 'the lower' half of the tub are arranged, in semieircular or arc shape, a' series of rollers, B, that are supported in stayflboards fitted to the sides of the tub. The stayboards and rollers are rigidly retained at the 1.1 inside of the tub by grooved metallic side standards C, which are let into socket-re- '.,t cesses ofthe stay-boards, and secured by top ers vertically below the pivots than at tbe end rollers, so as that the cylinder exerts a greater pressure at the end rollers than at the central rollers. The cylinder D is made of solid sides, with lateral rubber slats secured to the same. A handle, D', at the top part, serves to swing the cylinder from one end to the other ot' the machine, producing the quick washing of the clothes when placed with the sud s in the tub.

For the purpose of Wa shin g out streaky and heavily-soiled parts, as wristbands, Src., a wash-board, E, is secured by means of tongues into grooves of the stay-boards, and locked by pivot-braces d, to be readily removed when not required. At the opposite side oi' the mai 1. The combination of wash-board E,'with i stay-boards and tub, by grooveand tongue joint and retaining pivot-braces, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with tub A, having pivot stop e and ,stay-boards B', of a horizontal wringer-support, F, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES K. EoGEEs.

' Witnesses:

E. S. PAEDEEs, G. S. PIPER. 

